Sparkly unicorn

It has been an age since I picked up my crochet hooks and made something I'm happy with. I've been dabbling with some new ideas but nothing has been turning out like I hoped. I wanted to get more shape into my amigurumis and have been trying out ways to make legs and arms with joints in without sewing or using toy joints. I wanted the crochet to do the work and I was sure there must be a way of making a natural bend in a leg or arm. Well yesterday I had a bit of a eureka moment and after much trial and error I give you my sparkly unicorn.

Not the best picture but hopefully you can see how I'm managed to get a nice bend in the back legs. He/She (I haven't checked) is made from a Wendy Peter pan yarn called moon dust it has a iridescent thread that runs through it so that the finished unicorn sparkles.

 I've embroidered sequin's to the flank and as decoration to the eyes to try in the colours in the mane and just to make it look pretty

The unicorn horn is crocheted from gold fingering, its very fiddly to crochet with but it gives a nice effect. The mane is from a ball of sock yarn I had in my stash its an incredibly soft yarn so it flows nicely.

As I've finished it today I though I'd add him to 1st Unique gifts homemade Monday blog link up which is here


The inspiration for making a unicorn was a strange one but this is the picture my friend posted on pintrest. It just makes me giggle so much that I could resist doing this :)